Paulette Brown, a longtime advocate for diversity in the profession, is the uncontested nominee for American Bar Association president in 2015, which would make her the first minority woman to hold the post.

Brown, 61, a labor and employment partner at Edwards Wildman Palmer in Madison, N.J., and the firm’s chief diversity officer, was named Sunday to a standing ovation before the Nominating Committee at the ABA’s midyear conference in Dallas.